At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced DSX POD, a Vera Rubin AI factory delivered in containers. The company says it is integrated and validated before delivery. NVIDIA also introduced the OpenShell Reference Architecture, an open design intended to help businesses control AI agents.
For DSX POD, NVIDIA claims deployment at a prepared site can drop from six months to 14 days. The prepared-site condition matters: the figure is NVIDIA’s proposed timeline, not a reported result from a completed deployment.
OpenShell is the software runtime, not another name for the reference architecture. In its technical explanation, NVIDIA calls OpenShell an open-source runtime that forms the architecture’s foundation. The company says it can govern which files, internet services and other systems an agent may access.
NVIDIA describes four parts of that design: a Gateway to manage sandboxes and policies; a Supervisor, running separately from the sandbox, to check outbound requests and mediate credentials; a Sandbox to restrict filesystem and process access; and a Policy prover to check permissions against an organization-defined ceiling. For deployments needing additional protection, NVIDIA says BlueField-4 and Sentry can add a hardware-isolated safeguard. That hardware is optional, not a feature of every OpenShell installation.
